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+===================================
+RGW Dynamic Bucket Index Resharding
+===================================
+
+.. versionadded:: Luminous
+
+A large bucket index can lead to performance problems. In order
+to address this problem we introduced bucket index sharding.
+Until Luminous, changing the number of bucket shards (resharding)
+needed to be done offline, from Luminous we support
+online bucket resharding.
+
+Each bucket index shard can handle its entries efficiently up until
+reaching a certain threshold of entries. If this threshold is exceeded the system
+could encounter performance issues.
+The dynamic resharding feature detects this situation and increases
+automatically the number of shards used by the bucket index,
+resulting in the reduction of the number of entries in each bucket index shard.
+This process is transparent to the user.
+
+The detection process runs:
+1. When new objects are added to the bucket
+2. In a background process that periodically scans all the buckets
+This is needed in order to deal with existng buckets in the system that are not being updated.
+A bucket that requires resharding is added to the ``reshard_log`` queue and will be
+scheduled to be resharded later.
+The reshard threads run in the background and execute the scheduled resharding, one at a time.
+
+Multisite
+=========
+Dynamic resharding is not supported in multisite environment.
+
+
+Configuration
+=============
+
+Enable/Disable Dynamic bucket index resharding:
+
+-``rgw_dynamic_resharding``:  true/false, default: true.
+
+Parameters to control the resahrding process in Ceph configuration fie:
+
+-``rgw_reshard_num_logs``: number of shards for the resharding log, default: 16
+
+-``rgw_reshard_bucket_lock_duration``: duration of lock on bucket obj during resharding, default:  120 seconds.
+
+-``rgw_max_objs_per_shard``: maximum number of objects per bucket index shard, default: 100000 objects.
+
+-``rgw_reshard_thread_interval``: maximum time between rounds of reshard thread processing,  default: 600 seconds
+
+
+Admin commands
+==============
+
+Add a bucket to the resharding queue
+------------------------------------
+::
+  # radosgw-admin reshard add --bucket <bucket_name> --num-shards <new number of shards>
+
+List resharding queue
+---------------------
+::
+   # radosgw-admon reshard list
+
+Process/Schedule a bucket resharding
+------------------------------------
+ ::
+   # radosgw-admin reshard process
+
+bucket resharding status
+------------------------
+::
+  # radosgw-admin reshard status --bucket <bucket_name>
+
+Cancel pending bucket resharding
+--------------------------------
+
+Ongoing bucket resharding operations cannot be cancelled.
+
+::
+  # radosgw-admin reshard cancel --bucket <bucket_name>
+
+Manual bucket resharding
+------------------------
+::
+  # radosgw-admin bucket reshard --bucket <bucket_name> --num-shards <new number of shards>
+
diff --git a/doc/radosgw/index.rst b/doc/radosgw/index.rst
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@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ you may write data with one API and retrieve it with the other.
    Compression <compression>
    Server-Side Encryption <encryption>
    Bucket Policy <bucketpolicy>
+   Dynamic bucket index resharding <dynamicresharding>
    Data Layout in RADOS <layout>
    troubleshooting
    Manpage radosgw <../../man/8/radosgw>
    Manpage radosgw-admin <../../man/8/radosgw-admin>
+